The Rise And Fall Of Treason In English History
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The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History
Author | : Allen Boyer,Mark Nicholls |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2024-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781003846130 |
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This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. Describing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this worst of crimes. It explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book. This book also considers why treason as both a word and a concept remains so potent in wider modern culture, investigating prevalent current misconceptions about what is and what is not treason. It concludes by suggesting that the abolition or 'death' of treason in the near future, while a logical next step, is by no means a foregone conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History is a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history.
The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History
Author | : Allen D. Boyer,Mark G. Nicholls |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 100305207X |
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"This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History is a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history"--
House of Treason
Author | : Robert Hutchinson |
Publsiher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2009-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780297857631 |
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King-makers - Conspirators - Criminals - Nobles - Seducers 'A riveting story, splendidly told' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Gripping and gruesome' BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH 'Fascinating close-ups of outlandish Tudor behaviour' DAILY MAIL The Howard family - the Dukes of Norfolk - were the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in Tudor England, regarding themselves as the true power behind the throne. They were certainly extraordinarily influential, with two Howard women marrying Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn and the fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard. But in the treacherous world of the Tudor court no faction could afford to rest on its laurels. The Howards consolidated their power with an awesome web of schemes and conspiracies but even they could not always hold their enemies at bay. This was a family whose history is marked by treason, beheadings and incarceration - a dynasty whose pride and ambition secured only their downfall.
Treason
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2019-05-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004400696 |
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Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime.
Treason By The Book
Author | : Jonathan Spence |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780241959145 |
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In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of the plot and immediately informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The ringleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing on an enormous wealth of documentary evidence - over a hundred and fifty secret documents between the Emperor and his agents are stored in Chinese archives - Jonathan Spence has recreated this revolt of the scholars in fascinating and chilling detail. It is a story of unwordly dreams of a better world and the facts of bureaucratic power, of the mind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.
Imagining the King s Death
Author | : John Barrell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 860 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0198112920 |
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It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in Britain must have found themselves imagining that the same fate might befall George III. How easy was it to distinguish between fantasising about the death of George and imagining it, in the legal sense of intending or designing? John Barrell examines this question in the context of the political trials of the mid-1790s and the controversies they generated. He shows how the law of treason was adapted in the years following Louis's death to punish what was acknowledged to be a "modern" form of treason unheard of when the law had been framed. The result, he argues, was the invention of a new and imaginary reading, a "figurative" treason, by which the question of who was imagining the king's death, the supposed traitors or those who charged them with treason, became inseparable.
Treason Betrayal The Rise and Fall of Individual 1
Author | : Kenneth Foard McCallion |
Publsiher | : Bryant Park Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2019-04-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0997929235 |
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President Trump's early history leads to success and then disgrace as he betrays the United States. A thorough analysis of Trump's ever increasing list of high crimes including treason